Self-Pity and the Snow Storm..!
Many years ago while reading the book, Silas Marner by George Eliot, I remember the way one of the characters, Molly dies in a snow storm. She trudges through the falling snow and finding it increasingly difficult to walk, stumbles, falls, then takes the last bit of opium she carries…
Sorry..!
Quite often I see an apology in the newspapers for some news item wrongly reported, or see a crime movie where the slick lawyer says, “I’m sorry your honour!’ But in both cases, I know it was either the fear of litigation or repercussions from His Lordship that brought on…
The Helpful Sounds of Silence..!
A wise old bird sat on an oak- The more he saw, the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard, Lord make me like that wise old bird.-Anon For two weeks I’d stopped carrying my phone. My friends thought I was crazy. “Bob!” they cried, “we…
Are You Tiptoeing Through Life?
Years ago in school, I was once one of the shyest boys around. Girls teased me no end, and other boys bullied me till one day at the morning assembly, I heard my head master say something that changed my life. “Most people,” he said, “tiptoe through life and finally…
Koffee with Karan and True Beauty..!
Many years ago I was watching ‘Koffee with Karan’ and enjoyed him interviewing the late Rishi Kapoor and wife Neetu. Theirs was a marriage that had lasted quite a few decades and in the film kingdom this is a record of sorts. What I loved best however was when Neetu…
Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.